Tainted Aether
- Mana cost
- {2}{B}{B}
- Type
- Enchantment
- Set
- Urza's Saga #161 (rare)
- Price
- $18.89 USD
Whenever a creature enters, its controller sacrifices a creature or land of their choice.
Tainted Aether has 3 printings, first in Urza's Saga (1998). EDHREC ranks it #13,253 among Commander cards. It appears most in Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern decks (779 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Tainted Aether most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern: 779 decks
- Toshiro Umezawa: 271 decks
- Phage the Untouchable: 206 decks
- Shauku, Endbringer: 89 decks
- Kuon, Ogre Ascendant // Kuon's Essence: 26 decks
- Darigaaz Reincarnated: 16 decks
- Gideon the Oathless: 10 decks
- Tsabo Tavoc: 9 decks
Often played with Tainted Aether
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If more than one of these is on the battlefield, the controller sacrifices a creature for each one of these.
- : If the controller has no other lands or creatures on the battlefield, they must sacrifice the creature that just entered.
- : Tainted Aether's controller is the one that controls its triggered ability, but the controller of the creature that entered chooses what creature they sacrifice during resolution.
- : If the creature changes controllers before this ability resolves, its new controller has to sacrifice something.